Weekly Oricon Rankings (Ending 12-08)

The top single for the past week was “Kokoro Sora Moyou” from Kanjani8 with 192,573 copies sold. That’s significantly lower than their normal range and far from the platinum level I thought they should be aiming for. This single does come on the heels of an album release and there’s already an upcoming single announced for January, but I don’t know whether that’s enough explanation for this result.

Sandaime J Soul Brothers’ “SO RIGHT” secured #2 by selling 110,176 copies. There are apparently some circumstances around this number that I’m not totally clear about, but it’s not too far away from the group’s normal range (at least they didn’t suddenly sell a million copies or anything . . . .).

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Kanjani’s last two singles had 3 editions. You will find the sales figures for this single to be similar to the single before those two, which was also 2 editions. The slight drop from the last 2 edition single to this one may be due to the factors you mentioned above?